Believe it or not, they've
managed to narrow down what wisdom is--or what people think it
is--through the strategic use of surveys. First, in "Phase 1," they
figured out the differences between intelligence, wisdom, and
spirituality, and in "Phase 2, the definition of wisdom was further
refined by focusing upon 12 items from the Phase 1 results." This is what they found:

Most of the experts, Jeste and Meeks said, agreed that wisdom could be characterized thus:

It is uniquely human.

It is a form of advanced cognitive and emotional development that is experience-driven.